Pot of Gold

The police called to inform us that we could pick up the recovered items from the robbery that occurred in September.

The police (Politie in Dutch) apprehended a group of local (Antillean) young men in their twenties and thirties. They had been robbing residences and businesses all over the island.  Apparently, they did not surveil any of the locations or target any place in particular.  It was all random acts.  

The police caught them by listening to a cell phone conversation between the get away driver and the thieves trying to find each other in the night. The police said the robbers were not very smart....which we think is usually the case with criminals. 

The thieves dumped some stuff in the sea, sold things and kept other items.  The police apprehended them with the goods they kept.  Some of our items were recovered. Some were not. 

The police said that they used our statement and identification of stolen items to convict the group.  The robbers will spend 6 to 7 years in jail.

There was a rainbow that came out after the storm the day our items were returned.  I guess there really was a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.